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Well, I'm a sucker for combiners so I'll be getting them all eventually. I've almost completed the entire PCC run (a few more on their way and I'm done), so that should tell you something. Having said that....

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Well, just to make everything absolutely clear, I have no issues with the story of the games (I just hate being forced to play a video games in order to follow a story. I'm not a gamer, and moreso, I hate the type of game that WfC/FoC are. But that's nothing against the story itself). Just the character designs. I wished they'd gotten someone who has real and genuine experience designing transformers, like Don Figueroa, Nick Roche, or Guido Guidi.
The designs do a terrible job at representing the G1 versions of the characters, *and* the Prime versions of the characters.
Most of the designs are not physically possible from any sort of engineering standpoints (Arcee, anyone?). They go for what they think looks cool, whether it's possible or not. And in my eyes, those end up looking bland, boring, and extremely generic.
That translates into the toys 100 percent, for me. WfC Prime looks only slightly less boring than Prime Prime (I wish they'd called that series something else).
But maybe I was spoiled by Don's excellent WWI designs.

They weren't designed to be pre-G1 figures, necessarily. In fact, the WFC characters take most of their design cues from the movies anyway. Besides, I could point out a ton of G1 toys that couldn't possibly transform IRL the way the show or toy depicts it. I think you may have been spoiled by Don's work, because I feel you're being overly harsh on what amounts to fantastical designs. Who says they have to make sense or be realistic? Alien technology should be enough of an explanation. Where is your suspension of disbelief?

As far as continuity is concerned, I treat all WFC stuff as a separate universe from both G1 and the Bay films, regardless of what Hasbro says is or is not canon. Hell, half the time they can't decide on that anyway.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Hell, the UT had some wonderful toys, excellent characters, and brilliant concepts.

It also had a bunch of shit toys and crappy concepts. I love combiners, like I said, but even I can honestly say that the Power Link/Super Link was shite. Interesting concept, poor execution. And talk about bad combined modes.

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Even Prime has *some* unrealized potential. (It's hurt most by very poor CG, and not living up to it's overblown reputation storywise).

Bad CG? Are we even watching the same show? And are you watching yours in HD or standard?

Sorry, I don't see what's bad about it. From my experience, it looks great.

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Originally Posted by Greenskar

by the way a pic of this new Bruticus toy has finally been posted on TFW: FoC Onslaught Figure - Page 23 - TFW2005 - The 2005 Boards

Let me know how off I was about what I claimed to see in the OP.

I think he looks fine for a combiner made of five distinct molds. Just look at the original G1 combiners: Devastator and Defensor looked like single massive robots but were practically statues, Superion was gangly as shit, Bruticus and Menasor had skinny thighs, Menasor and Abominus had hugh gaps between their shoulders, and Monstructor was the TF equivalent of Pluto (the planet). The only one who looked good combined and still had decent size and articualtion was Predaking.

Granted, FP may have set the bar extremely high with not-Bruticus, but I have to give some praise to Hasbro for at least making something like this. I have seen and made posts for years asking them to design a combiner using five deluxe molds as the limbs/torso (or a voyager as the torso).

At any rate, it's certainly a step up from the Energon and PCC combiners.